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Monitoring Regional Scale Water
Balance & Rice Crop Yield using Remote Sensing
Research Supervisor:
Mr Tim McVicar & Dr John Louis
Research Staff:
Medharvy Thankappan, Geoff Beecher & John Blackwell
Funding:
$92,640 (CRC Sustainable Rice)
Duration:
1998-2001
Project Summary:
The project will acquire and process a range
of remotely sensed data types (optical and RADAR)
to map different crop types for two major
irrigation areas in Southern NSW. This will utilise
digital classification techniques including neural
networks. Mapping will be ground truthed and an evaluation
of the accuracy and timeliness of the information provided will be assessed. The remotely sensed
based mapping will be combined with other data layers
to provide a regional spatial decision support
capability for water balance and / or crop yield modelling
within an irrigated area.
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